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Nick Gillespie & John McWhorter 26 Feb 2025 • EN

John McWhorter: Is 'Wokeness' Finally Dead?

New York Times columnist and linguist John McWhorter discusses the rise and fall of "woke," DEI and affirmative action, and his new book on the history of pronouns.

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Lauren Gawne + Gretchen McCulloch & Emily Bender 22 Nov 2024 • EN

98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender

When a human learns a new word, we're learning to attach that word to a set of concepts in the real world. When a computer "learns" a new word, it is creating some associations between that word and other words it has seen before, which can sometimes give it the appearance of understanding, but it doesn't have that rea

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Welcome to episode 189 of Sports Management Podcast. Ben McFadyean is a football journalist, fan activist, translator and writer with a specialization in German football, particularly the Bundesliga, which he has been following since the 1990s.  We spoke about: The evolution of German football His love for Borussia Dor

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Is the Way You Speak Limiting How You Think? For years, scientists debated how language shapes the brain, but new research reveals it goes far beyond communication. Some languages lack numbers, grammar, or even complex sentences—yet their speakers navigate reality in ways that defy expectations. In this mind-bending ep

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James talks the environment and geopolitics with Noam Chomsky.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brynn Quick speaks with best-selling author and linguist Gretchen McCulloch about her 2019 New York Times bestselling book Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead Books, 2020). Gretchen has written a Resident Linguist column at The Toast and Wired. She is also the co-creator of Lingthusiasm

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